{"id":1870,"date":"2023-04-03T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/news\/from-belgrade-to-banjaluka-to-get-new-records\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T08:50:33","slug":"from-belgrade-to-banjaluka-to-get-new-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/news\/from-belgrade-to-banjaluka-to-get-new-records\/","title":{"rendered":"From Belgrade to Banjaluka to get new records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When some of the biggest tennis stars with Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 at the helm arrived to red clay courts in Dor\u0107ol back in 2009, no one could have predicted that a complex of tennis courts near the Danube River would become a tennis hub every spring since then.<\/p>\n<p>The first Serbia Open\u2019s winner was Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 who defeated Polish Lukasz Kubot (2:0) in the final. The year after that, in 2010, American Sam Querrey defeated\u00a0 his fellow American John Isner in the final, with 2:1 in sets, to win the singles tennis title at the 2010 Serbia Open. The World No. 1 victoriously returned to Belgrade in 2011 when he defeated Spaniard Feliciano Lopez with 2:0 in sets whereas in 2012, Italian Andreas Seppi claimed victory at the tournament after beating France&#8217;s Benoit Paire (2:0).<\/p>\n<p>Tennis matches were played at the tennis courts of the TC Novak between 2013 and 2020 as well, although recreational. In 2021, Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 returned professional tennis to Serbia when Wimbledon finalist Italian Matteo Berrettini won the Serbia Open after beating Russia&#8217;s Aslan Karatsev with 2:0 in sets. Although the year itself was a difficult year for the entire planet, Serbia, Belgrade and Dor\u0107ol lived for tennis again. In addition to the ATP tournament, a WTA tournament in the World Tour 250 series was organised in Serbia for the first time as well. The winner of the WTA tournament was Spanish tennis player Paola Badosa.<\/p>\n<p>However, nothing would be as perfect if it wasn\u2019t for Novak \u0110okovi\u0107. With his presence he managed to attract 59 fantastic tennis players to a tournament in the ATP World Tour 250 series \u201cpacked\u201d in 54 matches.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1857\" src=\"http:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-KHACHANOV_62-3-2048x1364.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tennis-ATP Serbia Open 2022-SEMI FINAL-Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Karen Khachanov (RUS)<br \/>\nBeograd, 23.04.2022.<br \/>\nfoto: Starsrport\/Serbia OpenIn the year marked by all kinds of restrictions, 22,000 tickets were sold and more than 34,000 spectators visited the tennis complex near the Danube River.<\/p>\n<p>However, last year was special, and emotional. After a pretty difficult start of 2022 for the best tennis player in the world and his return from Australia, there was no dilemma for Belgrade audience. They knew the winner even before the start of the Dor\u0107ol tournament &#8211; Novak \u0110okovi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors had their say but he tennis court, however, is something else. In a very tough competition, the trophy went to Moscow from Dor\u0107ol when Andrey Rublev lifted the trophy after defeating \u0110okovi\u0107 with 2:1 in sets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1859\" src=\"http:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/DJOKOVIC-RUBLEV_03-1-2048x1377.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tennis-ATP Serbia Open 2022-Final-Novak Djokovic (SRB) v Andrey Rublev (RUS)<br \/>\nBeograd, 24.04.2022.<br \/>\nfoto: Starsrport\/Serbia OpenThe Serbia Open wouldn\u2019t be the tournament we have today if it wasn\u2019t for its hard-working volunteers. In the last two years, the TC Novak welcomed more than 1,000 volunteers with almost 100,000 spectators who enjoyed 500 hours of world-class tennis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Special Thanks!\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MjU4Kb_LQr0\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This spring, the Serbia Open tournament is temporarily moving from Belgrade to Banjaluka but there is no doubt that this year\u2019s numbers will only add to the remarkable statistics. From April 16-23, everyone will be there again: tennis players, volunteers, visitors, reporters, news photographers, cameramen etc. and they will be there to capture hours and hours of high-quality tennis.<\/p>\n<p>See you in Banjaluka. Let\u2019s break new records!!!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Numbers speak louder than words:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>36.000 \u2013 trees planted by organisers, guests and participants of the Serbia Open<\/p>\n<p>50.000 \u2013 people visited the TC Novak<\/p>\n<p>5.760 \u2013 tennis balls used by tennis players during the last year\u2019s tournament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When some of the biggest tennis stars with Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 at the helm arrived to red clay courts in Dor\u0107ol back in 2009, no one could have predicted that a complex of tennis courts near the Danube River would become a tennis hub every spring since then. The first Serbia Open\u2019s winner was Novak \u0110okovi\u0107 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srpskaopen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}